Failing Forward? The Euro Crisis and the Incomplete Nature of European Integration

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1010-1034

  Jones, Erik ^a   Kelemen, R Daniel ^b   Meunier, Sophie ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic policy; EMU; EU politics and policy; euro; European politics; political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965120399     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414015617966     Document Type: Article

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